Clase 4 The Secret History of Women in Coding

 Clase 4 The Secret History of Women in Coding

The Secret History of Women in Coding

Reading the history of computing and how women were so involved has been surprising. As I would expect the opposite of what happened. That woman would not have had a chance to be part of the industry until more recent times. Still, the saddest part is that what followed was nothing new not just in computing but in all aspects of the economy. The reality that women were systematically and intentionally undermined at every corner.

The worst part of reading this article is to see how until today we as an industry keep discriminating against several groups like Latinos, blacks, and women. Not just that if not it seems we are worse than other industries. I can see these every day I go to study, I think I have never been in a class with more than 10 women present. This is quite surprising as I think in my university there must be a very similar proportion of men and women enrolled. So, this leaves only an obvious conclusion there is something we are doing wrong in the tech industry.

So, I think is now the responsibility of all of us the compensate women in the industry for everything they did to create it, to begin with. This can start with small things as being respectful to all women in the industry, but this for sure will not fix the problem. We must be more proactive about this issue. We should push to remove the stereotypes assigned to programming a technology. Also, we need to consider teaching technology as a required class for all students in public education systems.

To be honest I do not know how we can solve this problem the ideas above are just some small actions I think we can take now. But what we for sure must do is start looking at this as a real and vital problem that must be solved. At the end of the day, a more diverse industry will only benefit us. And as we can see from the history of computing women are as capable as men for the job.